Central NY hotel management sent long-term residents scrambling to make rooms for migrant contracts

Salina, NY — Mike Brown and Nikki Henry were amazed May 18 by a knock on their door at the Candlewood Suites hotel.

It was management with a message: The couple had a little over a week to clear out of the hotel room they’d been living in for months while they worked overnights at Amazon.

The company that owns the hotel made a deal to house migrants from New York City, according to lawsuits. Residents said the hotel management was clearing them out to make rooms for new ones.

Hotel management went through most of the building that day, guests said, knocking on doors of people who had called the home for months, and even years. Residents interviewed by Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard said they were paying rates that ranged from $700 a month to $2,100 a month to stay in one- and two-room suites with kitchenettes.

Some have

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Passion for Italy Podcast Episode #19 Why Aren’t You in Italy? · Passion For Italy Travel

Welcome to your adventure in Italy that you are going to do in the future maybe next year or the year after. I have been reading a lot lately about how to make the most of life and how to create it and make it happen.

Mid life we ​​all need to stop and take a pause. The only good thing to come out of Covid was that the world paused. It gave us a lot of time to breathe and think and assess our lives and relationships. I’m sure a lot of people thought about how one wishes to spend the rest of your life.

What is stopping you from traveling other than the price? Is it afraid of flying? Or is it just fear in general – You don’t know where to go? Do you have problems sleeping in strange beds? Maybe your partner doesn’t want to travel

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Two new Riverwalk hotels, Galleria apartments and more are now planned for Rock Hill

New hotels at Riverwalk and apartments near the Galleria Mall are just some of the latest development happenings in Rock Hill.

The city planning commission will meet Tuesday night with a full agenda of potential projects. Most involve major site plan approval, something the commission can grant without city council approval and also something that’s needed for large development projects.

Here’s a look at what they city has on the table:

▪ Hawkeye Hotels of Iowa applied for major site plan approval for two hotel buildings at 328 Marburg Lane. The 6-acre property is between the Rock Hill Velodrome and the Lidl grocery store. Submitted plans show two hotels there, each at four stories.

Each hotel would be more than 82,000 square feet. A layout submitted to the city doesn’t name the hotel brands, but a separate architectural rendering lists a Residence Inn by Marriott.

▪ The Warren Norman Company

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California hotel workers on strike demand higher wages and a chance to live closer to work

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A second wave of hotel strikes is hitting Southern California this week.

Hotel workers and labor organizers have been striking and demanding higher wages and other benefits as they argue their existing salaries are unsustainable amid the region’s high cost of living and rent, making commutes and buying basic goods unsustainable.

Irene Andrade, 53, has worked as a housekeeper at the Sheraton Gateway next to Los Angeles International Airport for 17 years. She used to live in nearby Inglewood, but she moved to Ontario in San Bernardino County to be able to afford rent. She said she spends several hours commuting to and from work — she’s on the road at 5 am and gets home around 7 pm, and she hardly gets to see her 7-year-old daughter.

Striking hotel workers holding placards rally outside the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown. Southern California hotel workers are ON STRIKE! Thousands walked off the job at properties across Downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica, in an effort to secure higher pay and improvements in health care and retirement benefits. (Photo by Ringo Chiu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) (Ringo Chiu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP)

Striking hotel workers holding placards rally outside the Intercontinental Los Angeles Downtown. Southern California hotel workers are ON STRIKE!

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Thousands of hotel workers go on strike in southern California | US unions

Thousands of hotel workers in southern California walked off the job on Sunday, demanding higher pay and better benefits in what their union is calling the largest strike in its history.

Cooks, room attendants, dishwashers, servers, bellmen and front desk agents at hotels were picking outside major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties just as the summer tourist season is leaning up.

Last month, members of Unite Here Local voted 11 96% in favor of authorizing the strike. The union is seeking better wages, improved healthcare benefits, higher pension contributions and less strenuous workloads.

In addition, the union wants to create a “hospitality workforce housing fund” to help workers deal with the soaring costs of living in greater Los Angeles. Many employees report commuting hours to work because they can’t afford to live near their jobs.

“Our members were devastated first by the pandemic, and now by the greed

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15 Richest Hotel Owners in the World

In this article, we will take a look at the 15 richest hotel owners in the world. If you wish to skip our detailed analysis on the richest hoteliers in the world, the hotel industry and billionaire wealth, you may jump to 5 Richest Hotel Owners in the World.

$500 Billion Poorer

The United States may be the richest country with the most billionaires, but the wealthiest are certainly not reaching new heights this year. According to Forbes, soaring inflation and falling markets have led the 400 wealthiest Americans to lose almost $500 billion last year. All of these individuals are now worth $4 trillion, experiencing a collective decrease in their net worth by 11%. For the first time since the Great Recession, the rich didn’t get any richer as compared to the previous year. In fact, the minimum net worth to make the Forbes 400 list also fell

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Airlines and hotels face ban on ‘rip-off’ fees in crackdown on hidden luggage charges

Some airlines have ramped up fees on baggage. (PA )

Some airlines have ramped up fees on baggage. (PA )

Airlines, hotels and online booking sites face a ban on “rip-off” fees for luggage under plans for a crackdown on hidden charges.

Rishi Sunak has said he is worried about booking sites and other online sales companies obscuring the real cost of their services.

He has ordered a review of the way services are sold with the final bill far bigger than the initial estimate in a sales strategy known as “drip-selling”.

The Prime Minister wants to see more price transparency in booking and travel sites and is considering whether regulation is needed to make it easier for customers to shop around, according to The Times.

The travel sector has been singled out for using “underhand” pricing, with car hire companies as well as budget airlines and hotels routinely adding on fees to the advertised price before checkout.

Mr Sunak

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This concept won’t be for everyone: Virgin Hotels Chicago

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Empire continues to spread its wings worldwide. The British billionaire is well known for tearing up the rule book and pushing the envelope with aviation and cruise ships to great fanfare, and his Virgin Hotels brand is slowly but surely opening properties across the US and the UK

Built in 1928, the Old Dearborn Bank Building on North Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, was purchased by the Virgin Group in 2011. The hotel finally debuted in 2015 following refurbishment delays due to the building’s landmark status.

How does Virgin’s modern and unconventional approach to hospitality mesh with an iconic century-old building?

Here’s what you need to know about Virgin Hotels Chicago.

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In the heart of the city, Virgin Hotels Chicago adopted an unstuffy, more casual approach to hospitality, focusing on youthful fun and a hint of British cheekiness. Room rates are

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